September 18 — Rained nearly all last night, and to-day it poured down incessantly until ten o’clock, then the clouds rolled away, and for a while the sun shone from a bright midsummer-like sky; but it was too bright to last, for it soon again was curtained with dark, thick, angry-looking, piled-up thunder clouds that broke overhead in copious, drenching showers, accompanied with thunder and lightning. This evening we moved toward the Rapidan, and we are now camped on Mountain Run in Orange County, five miles from Raccoon Ford.
Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese.
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